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Article: Parental stress in relation to the severity of congenital heart disease in the offspring. (Continuing Education Series).(Abstract)
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- Pediatric Nursing
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Advances in diagnostic procedures, medical as well as surgical care, and thus improved survival rate, have resulted in a steady increase in the number of families with children with congenital heart disease (Lundstrom, Berggren, Bjorkheim, Jogi, & Sunnegardh, 2000). Parenting a child with congenital heart disease is potentially very stressful. Children with complex congenital heart disease may have extensive problems that affect parental stress, such as nutritional problems (Forchielli, McColl, Walker, & Lo, 1994; Thommessen, Heiberg, & Kase, 1992), a feeling of being different (Gantt, 1992), a dependent lifestyle (Kokkonen & Paavilainen, 1992), social problems, and less ...